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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1926
Page
3
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Misses Martha and Dorothy Stuart daughters of Dr and Mrs E C Stuart are due back tonight or tomorrow after spending winter and early spring in Hollywood Florida They are visiting friends in Washington for a day or two before returning. The Rev Dr Harry M Canter and Mr and Mrs William G Hardy plan to depart next Saturday for Memphis Tennessee for the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South They are delegates from the Baltimore Annual Conference and expect to be away about three weeks The General Conference meets every four years and elects bishops followed by Mrs Canter leaving Thursday.
Local society notes show Miss Marshall Stryker dining with Mrs. Gladstone Grubbs in Berryville while ill. guests include Mrs. James C. Ritter and Miss Ethel Wendall. Redpath Lyceum Bureau advances three shows next season. residents travel to Martinsburg New York and Washington for shopping, funerals, and family visits.
Dr C N Dewey an osteopathic master in Harrisonburg Virginia was acquitted of practicing medicine without a license by a circuit court jury. Witnesses for the defense said massages and electrical treatment provided relief and no evidence of pretending to practice medicine. The Medical Society of Virginia had charged him. the prosecution argued he prescribed medicines without proper exam.
Father E. A. Brosnan of Norfolk urged Virginia Catholics to be represented at the National Bucharestic Congress in Chicago next June. He spoke at a Blessed Sacrament church meeting where he outlined plans and noted his role as former spiritual adviser to the Virginia Holy Name Union.
A Virginia delegation plans a special C&O train trip from Richmond on June 18 to attend the Chicago Catholic Congress opening June 20. The event features massed communions and processions and runs through June 22. Father Brosnan’s planned Valley address was postponed.
Washington April 25 The American Red Cross announced its annual award for unusual feats in first aid and rescue work by Americans last year and the Lockwood cup. Grand Rapids Junior Life Saving Crew won for qualifying 165 youth as life savers. James G. White of Western Electric Vancouver Wash. won first prize for saving a life after contact with a high voltage wire. Elmer Ray Porter Greensburg Pa. won second prize for controlling arterial bleeding of Charles Lycock St veston Pa. William Selman Pacific Telephone Co. won third prize for rescuing Harry Saldai near Winnemucca Nev after a car crash.
The debt commission in Washington prepares to return to France’s settlement offer and to press ahead with funding deals for Belgium Romania Latvia Estonia Czecho Slovakia andJugoslovakia. Senate action on Belgium is anticipated while French terms face extended discussion and possible revisions.
It is likely M. Berenger will be urged to raise the initial payment above 25 million dollars annually and to further adjust any plans to ease France’s burden should Germany fail to meet its reparations obligations.
A house on William E. Smith the Frederick county supervisor from Gainesboro district burned to the ground late Saturday night or early Sunday morning. It stood on the old Muse farm near Hayfield part of Smiths tract. The unoccupied dwelling had not housed residents for two weeks since Lafayette Miller family moved out. Neighbors saw cars moving around the house and a blaze around 1 am. Smith values the loss at 1500 dollars with about 1000 dollars insured. A rented family was to move in April 1 but delayed.
Beginning today the local board of review sat from 10 a m to 4 p m to let realty owners examine new assessments and protest if too high. Many checked their figures but protests were rare, most changes raising values rather than lowering them.
Seven persons were rescued early today after their speed boat ran aground on a coral reef ten miles off Clearwater Florida. A search had continued through the night after the boat did not return from a pleasure trip.
By order of the Circuit Court of Frederick County J. Haldeman and W. Nelson Page are named as members of the Frederick County Board of Public Welfare.
Two up state rivers reached record high levels as delayed spring runoff from Adirondack snow causes floods. Hudson at Albany and Mohawk tributary swell flood plains and threaten warehouses and roads, while Hartford Connecticut river rises four feet above flood stage with widespread lowland flooding.
The Boyd mine of the Elm Grove Mining Company in Wheeling will resume operation Wednesday on a non union basis. Superintendent Joseph Arkwright said the move comes after union miners rejected a monthly pay settlement. About 600 workers are affected. Former employees get preference if they reapply. others must vacate company houses. The new wage scales cut pay roughly 1.56 per day. Union leaders say members will not work under the new terms and may challenge evictions in court.
The Church of the First Baptist Negro congregation was destroyed by fire after a white mob drove out Black worshippers. Earlier, bricks and stones shattered windows as whites attacked. Reverend George H. Reed led Sunday services before the church was set aflame. Robert Ducapept, a Black man, was arrested for the fatal stabbing of white boxer John Carroll, amid threats of further race riots.
Assistant Secretary Andrews says enforcement improvements depend on Congress and new bills. He notes reorganized prohibition unit, local enforcement shift, coast guard coordination to curb smuggling, tighter permit controls, and treaties with Mexico and Cuba to fight cross border smuggling.
Geneva reports an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Theodore Aubert leader of the International Anti Bolshevik Association. An unknown man fired at Aubert at his home but he dodged behind a screen and was not hit. Aubert previously defended Maurice Conradi in the 1923 Lausanne shooting case.
Resolution of the stockholders dissolves W. H. Baker, a West Virginia corporation, at a special meeting in Winchester Virginia on April 19 1926, directing officers to advertise and complete the dissolution. Date April 20 1926. Legal notice style indicates dissolution actions and required steps.
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